[mythtv-users] Fwd: Re: ntp stratum two time servers

[Tom Dexter]

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 12:06 AM, Rod Smith <mythtv at rodsbooks.com> wrote:
>
>  Instead of having multiple machines querying an NTP server off your local
>  network, I recommend you have one local machine query an external NTP server
>  and have the rest of your local machines query your first machine. That
>  minimizes network traffic and the load on the off-site server. (Granted, even
>  three extra machines' NTP traffic isn't all that huge, but every little bit
>  helps, and if everybody did it this way, it could help a lot.) The loss of
>  accuracy from the extra NTP "hop" won't be significant for most purposes, and
>  certainly not for scheduling TV shows.
>

Yes...I'll probably have my myth backend query the external server
(since it's the one I really car about) and have the other two query
it.

Tom